Asus T100
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There's a store near me selling an Asus T100 for $100. Specs aren't great but it's a full laptop and tablet with 10-12 hours of battery life.
>IPS screen
>2gb ram
>32 GB DDR
>Intel Atom Z3775
I already have a T530 as my main machine. This would be to have a long battery general browser that fits in a small bag.
The issue is that the reviews are evenly split on it being utter rubbish and actually decent. Do I do it /g/?
>>55424416
DDR should have been ssd. Autocorrect yo.
>>55424416
Man you need to understand that it is not a surface pro.
I hate a similar laptop-tablet and is good to watch porn and YouTube videos in bed. Edge browser is your best option for browsing the Web, any other browser will lag. Cannot browse the Internet with more than a couple of tabs opens. If you need to edit documents get one else get an android tablet, you will get better specs for the same price. Web browsing is not very smooth on this thing.
>32GB DDR
>DDR
you're a fucking retard
anyway, with 2GB ram it's just enough to run a few tabs in a browser, shitpost on 4chan and watch a 720p movie (1080p will probably throttle it but they'll play)
it'll spend most of the time swapping non-existant ram to the slow storage chips (eMMC Flash) so yeah... fucking have fun with that
>>55424416
>1366x768
>giant bezels
no.
>>55424416
Owner here, it's perfectly good. 2gb of ram sure, but remember that its 32bit windows so you really dont feel like it needs moar.
>>55424416
I have a venue 8 pro, very similar device
Battery life is great and performance is not too bad, not comparable to old netbooks at all, more on core 2 duo level.
Chrome is the only browser that works well .with the onscreen keyboard, and you won't find any "apps" from android or iOS, but if you only want to use desktop-class programs then it's great. Playing 1080p movies is possible without issues. Also 64GB SDs are dirt cheap so storage shouldn't be a problem.
>>55424823
>tablet without bezels
>>55424887
Not everyone's hands are as fat as yours.
>>55424905
How are you supposed to hold it comfortably without bezels, moron
>>55424771
He corrected himself in the second post, you fucking dickhead.
>>55424917
Against the sides.
>>55424726
That's what I figured. I'm not approaching it as a $400 machine marked down to $100. But more as a machine that is finally appropriately priced at $100. It's going to be used for light document editing and web browsing and that's it. Do you find that you have the same laggy browsing experience with every browser? I'm fairly agnostic when it comes to browsers, so if there's something that would work best, I'd be down to swap.
>>55424771
Yea autocorrect got me. I figure that shitposting on 4chan is about all I'll do with it anyway. Anything else is what the T530 is for. It's not like the T530 is particularly cumbersome. It's just slightly to large to be a "bring about the house browser" and I'm finding that my phone is too small (plus I'd like a keyboard). It looks like some people have gotten debian and ubuntu working on it. I could try to go for a lightweight distro and see if that helps the tiny ram, right?
>>55424823
Not really getting it for aesthetics. But I appreciate the input.
>>55424850
Coolness, will keep that in mind. Do you use it as a light browser/secondary computer too? Or is it your main machine?
Thanks for the input y'all. It looks like I'd have 15 days to return it if hate it. I think I'm going to take the plunge and if it's too much garbage, I'll just save the extra $100 for an x200 or something.
>>55424416
I have an X205TA and once you debloat Windows 10 it runs well enough. It has the 32-bit version, though.
>>55425072
even if the ram is enough, the storage is not an ssd as you know it. it's emmc and it's cancer
>>55425290
It's faster than a HDD.
>>55424416
I have one and the battery life is excellent only real complaint is that it only has 2gb ram, everything else is great for what it is. The problem is that there are a majority of them that are "lemons" that have one issue or another, but for the price it's might be worth the risk, I got mine for $135 and am satisfied for the money
>>55425336
this is from a surface 3 that surely has better emmc and it's still shit so...
even with near-zero access time it's still slow as fuck and i already paired a proper ssd with a dual-core 45nm atom... it was fucking painful
Cube iWork10 Ultimate
or
Chuwi HiBook
>>>/g/csg
>>55425336
>faster than a HDD
that's not anything to be too proud of. any hdd is shit.
even 100% faster than a hdd is still shit
>>55425370
Sure, if you want 2 hours battery life at most
>>55425378
My iwork10 gets 6 hours SOT
>>55425290
eMMC isn't great, but it's certainly not cancer. Calling it cancer is kind of misleading since a lot of phones and tablets run off of eMMC.
Even saying it's cancer in a full computer, it kind of ignores the purpose of the T100, doesn't it? If this is meant to be a blend of the tablet and laptop form factors and uses, it make sense that it would come with some of the trade offs. Especially at the price.
It's not great, but it's $100. I'm not expecting it to have a normal SSD at that price.
Also found this:
http://dodgejcr.com/index.php/2015/09/29/install-arch-linux-on-the-asus-t100ta/
Definitely doing it and going the minimal Arch route. Seems like a fun toy.
>>55425391
>Calling it cancer is kind of misleading since a lot of phones and tablets run off of eMMC.
that's ok, i fucking hate my smartphone. so much that i don't even keep a sim card inside it, i just keep it in a bag and a nokia 515 in my pocket
xperia z5, yes, it's a piece of shit phablet
>>55425478
So clearly you're expectations aren't really even close to even the typical /g/ users expectations. So your complaints aren't really valid.
>>55425368
This is my dell venue 8 pro
Samsung 850 evo with sata2
it's really not that bad, but trackpad is absolutely horrendous. not really a large need for it tho, since the touchscreen's pretty good. 1366x768 is a pretty low resolution, but okay for general use. if you plan on using a linux distribution, the touchscreen and wifi won't work on almost every distro. Windows 10 really bogged it down, but after a fresh install of Windows 8.1 it runs pretty good
And an external USB3.0 HDD
emmc is sloooooow and the processor in tha thing is barely fast enough to browse the web.
There is no way in hell you will get 10 hours with it either.
>>55425558
Dude update your firmware, those drives are all fucked and wear out cells and get super slow with the firmware that shipped with them.
>>55425685
So you never used it but still make assumptions? Have you ever used a baytrail atom?
>>55425703
It is the latest firmware according to samsung magician. It has always been this "slow" because of SATA2
>>55425736
Oh, right, maybe see if you can enable AHCI or something and your random reads will probably pick up.
>>55424416
I have one, it works fine for light web browsing/video playback and shit like that. Wouldn't really use it (or any tablet actually) for much more.
OP here. Went out and bought it, posting from it now.
Certainly doesn't feel as slow/crap for browsing as a lot of people have said. It's not perfect and it's not super fast, but it's definitely better than I expected.
My only issue, really, is the attachable keyboard that it came with is kind of meh.
Certainly beats my old portable typer, which was an iPad 2 and a bluetooth keyboard.
Thanks for the help everyone.
>>55425982
Turns out it's also a 64gb version, so that's cool.
It's very slow, I have one. I had to put it in tablet mode and use MS Edge. Essentially you have a 3-4 tab limit at most. Makes me wonder if Chromebooks run any better.
>>55424416
you should've gotten the T100 with the 500GB HDD
Used to work at a store that sold them, played with the demo a lot, it's not the quickest machine, but if you throw 10 or classicshell on it i'm sure it'll be usable.
For $100 you can't really go wrong, unless you don't have disposable income, then save your cash.
That being said, it's a great shitposting device.
>>55426817
Oh I also have Windows 10 on it. It's not bad, but just doesn't have enough ram for my tastes.
I have one and I use it basically as a tablet, reading pdfs for uni, the occasional youtube video, emails and so on. With this kind of usage I never had any problem with the relatively low specifics.
I don't know how convenient it is with respect to a tablet for that price (I didn't buy it), but I like the fact that it's actually a pc and you can for example install all your favourite programs.
I use it with windows 10, but it works well also with ubuntu.
